DIRECTED BY MICHAEL GORDON
PRODUCED BY ROBERT ENDERS./ EVERETT FREEMAN
ABC PICTURES

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In this syrupy comedy, a father attempts to reconnect with his troubled,
estranged son, a philosophy…]]>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:33:23 +0000HOW DO I LOVE THEE?

DIRECTED BY MICHAEL GORDON
PRODUCED BY ROBERT ENDERS./ EVERETT FREEMAN
ABC PICTURES

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Plot Summary
In this syrupy comedy, a father attempts to reconnect with his troubled,
estranged son, a philosophy professor.
The chance at reconciliation comes when the son learns that his father,
whom he hasn't seen in years is fighting a strange nameless movie disease
in a French hospital.
The young man's wife is not pleased.
While aboard the jet, the son reflects upon his upbringing
and the fights that would erupt between his mother,
a fundamentalist Christian, and his father, an atheist.
He remembers how his father turned to a free-spirited artist for comfort.
Just before she left him, the artist gave the father a lovely poem.
Later after his son became a teacher, the father decides to enter
to piece in a poetry contest and wins $10,0000,
which he plans to donate to his son's department.
Unfortunately someone discovers that the artist's "original" poem
is anything but and the father is publicly humiliated while his son
is passed for promotion.
Seeing how unhappy his son has become, the father decides to go
to a church and pray for his son to get promoted.
It works, but unfortunately a man had to die for the son
to get it leaving the father to be wracked with guilt.
Fortunately with the son's arrival comes the father's salvation.
~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Trivia
Maureen O'Hara was injured on the set, O'Hara and Jackie Gleason were in the middle of a scene. O'Hara was sitting on a garden bench, the cushions had been removed exposing the cyclone fence wire that supported them. O'Hara's right hand was resting on the wire and as a very drunk Jackie Gleason was delivering his lines, he tripped and accidentally fell on top of her hand. The cyclone wire gave way and the weight of his body crushed her hand. She had to be rushed to the hospital; her hand required orthopedic surgery. As a result, she has no cartilage on the fingers of her right hand and is missing a joint on her index finger.

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University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA]]>McLINTOCK!DIRECTED BY ANREW McLAGLEN
PRODUCED BY MICHAEL WAYNE
A BATJAC PRODUCTION
UNITED ARTISTS
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Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights his wife,
his daughter,…]]>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:13:47 +0000McLINTOCK!DIRECTED BY ANREW McLAGLEN
PRODUCED BY MICHAEL WAYNE
A BATJAC PRODUCTION
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Plot Summary
Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights his wife,
his daughter, and political land-grabbers,
finally "taming" them all in this Western comedy with
Taming of the Shrew overtones.
Summary written by Jim Beaver

Trivia
The "mudhole" in which the famous brawl took place wasn't actually made of mud. It was made of a material called bentonite, which is used in the drilling of oil wells and has the consistency of chocolate syrup. According to actor Leo Gordon (the first one to be knocked down it), that scene took a week to shoot.

Promotional events were postponed for a week following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Although Stefanie Powers claims that John Ford came to the set to direct the movie for a week, Andrew V. McLaglen the director says that it never happened. He says he was there for the entire shoot of the movie.

In the scene where the Comanches are being outfitted with rifles it's easy to see that they're Krag Jorgensen carbines, meaning that this film takes place in at least 1896, as the Krag didn't service as a military arm until 1894.

John Wayne insisted that the role of the weak, insipid Governor be called "Cuthbert H. Humphrey", with the intention that he be seen as a parody of liberal Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, whom Wayne intensely disliked.

The inspiration for this raucous John Wayne comedy was none other than William Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew", which producer Michael Wayne and director Andrew V. McLaglen thought would have even more of a comedic kick if it were set in the Old West.

Although often seen as simply a knockabout comedy, John Wayne also intended the film to be a statement of his own conservative political views.

Fourth of five movies that paired John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.

Goofs
* Continuity: After McLintock hires young Devlin, McLintock drives off with Drago sitting to his left. The wagon turns around (off-screen) and heads out of town. After the off-screen turnaround, the characters have traded places in the buggy and Drago is now on McLintock's right.

* Continuity: In the opening credits there is an artist's rendering of the town of McLintock, with signs for every building indicating that every business in town is owned by McLintock. The sign on one of the buildings misspells McLintock as "McClintock."

* Anachronisms: In the mud fight scene, a person is seen in the background wearing a modern business suit. In the same shot, there's also a person wearing sunglasses.

* Continuity: When Agard falls from his horse, his glasses are on his face at an angle. When getting lifted up he has them in his left hand. But when he gets into the buckboard they are back on his face at an angle again.

* Revealing mistakes: The first punch that was thrown by G.W. at one of the spectators is obviously a fake punch. The fist was 2 inches away from the spectator's face.

* Continuity: When Katie runs into the store and is covered with tar and feathers, she calls G.W. into the store. His scarf is in one position and when he comes back out it is in a different position.

* Crew or equipment visible: During the fight at the mudslide, when Agard is in the mining cart headed for the slide, the cable pulling the mining cart is clearly visible.

* Crew or equipment visible: In the famous chase scene near the end of the movie, when Katherine tries to escape from G.W. into an alley behind the general store, the shadow of the camera as it zooms in for her closeup is clearly visible against the store wall on the left side of the shot.

* Continuity: When McLintock shoots Devlin Warren, he 'shoots' him in the lower abdomen. When Devlin gets up to clean himself off, the 'shot' is in his upper chest.

* Factual errors: The greeting in Comanche is "maruawe". But the "Comanches" greet each other (and are greeted by McLintock) with "yatahe", which is a Navajo greeting.

* Continuity: In the music of the band that welcomes Becky home at the train, a clarinet can clearly be heard; however, there is no clarinet there.

* Continuity: At the start of the "the hell I won't" scene, just before Gordon Jones pushes at Wayne with the shotgun, John Wayne's pants are clearly wet up to his knees, as if he had been walking around in the water at the bottom of the mudslide. The next shot the pants are dry.

* Revealing mistakes: During the scene in the store where McLintock is chasing Kathrine,the fall where McLintock crashes into the baskets is very clearly done by stuntman Chuck Roberson, not John Wayne.

* Continuity: In the long fight scene at the end, Katherine flies out of a window and lands in a trough of water. After that, trying to escape G.W., she falls into the dusty and muddy road. But still, in the next scene her underwear are clean white - and dry.

* Anachronisms: In the scene where John Wayne is hunting with a shotgun, you see him reload the shotgun, but it appears that the shotgun shell that he is using is a plastic hulled shotgun shell, not the paper ones or wax impregnated paper ones that would have been common during the time when this movie was supposedly set. In fact, plastic hulled shotgun shells did not come around until Remington introduced them in 1960. Remington used green plastic in their shells, so the moving was more than likely using a modern Remington plastic hull shotgun shell.

* Continuity: A tipsy McLintock is trying to walk Katehrine upstairs while swigging from a full whiskey bottle. They fall to the bottom of the stairs and the bottle clearly spills. Katherine picks the bottle up and bops McLintock on the head with it, then it amazingly becomes a full bottle again just before she throws it against the wall and it shatters.

* Continuity: SPOILER. When McLintock shoots Devlin Warren, we see a close up of Devlin as he raises his hands and backs away. We can see that his right hand is clearly empty in this shot, but in the next shot he's holding his hat in his right hand as he falls.

* Continuity: SPOILER: When GW shoots Devlin Warren, the shot appears in the middle of his stomach as he is backing away. When the camera changes and Dev is sitting on the floor, the shot is higher and to the right, on his left breast.

* Factual errors: SPOILER: When the Indians break out of confinement, many of them are seen wearing long, feathered head bonnets. The Indians are supposed to be Comanches, a tribe of the Southwest and the West who did not wear feathered bonnets; that was a headdress worn mainly by the Plains Indians of the Midwest, such as the Sioux and Arapahoe.

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DIRECTED BY GEORGE SHERMAN/ JOHN WAYNE (uncredited)
MUSIC BY ELMER BERNSTEIN
NATIONAL GENERAL/CINEMA CENTER
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The McCandles ranch is run…]]>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 13:40:32 +0000BIG JAKEPRODUCED BY MICHAEL WAYNE
DIRECTED BY GEORGE SHERMAN/ JOHN WAYNE (uncredited)
MUSIC BY ELMER BERNSTEIN
NATIONAL GENERAL/CINEMA CENTER

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Plot Summary
The McCandles ranch is run over by a gang of cutthroats led by the evil John Fain.
hey kidnap little Jacob McCandles and hold him for a million dollar ransom.
There is only one man who is brave enough and smart enough to bring him back and that man is Big Jake
Written by Christopher D. Ryan

John Wayne is Big Jake McCandles, on the trail on bandits in this action drama that stretches from Texas to Mexico.
It's 1909, and the Old West is giving way to modern times. When the outlaw gang led bu vicious John Fain (Boone)
raids Jake's ranch and kidnaps his 8-year-old grandson, Jake's wife (Maureen O'Hara), whom he hasn't seen in 18 years,
sends for her husband to rescue the boy. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout,
a faithful dog, and a box of money. But paying ransom isn't Jake's idea of good old frontier justice.
Written by Robert Lynch

Trivia
70mm blow-up version released in Spain under the title "El Gran Jack".

Bobby Vinton played the middle brother, despite being four years older than Patrick Wayne.

This was to be the final film in which John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara would work together;
they had previously collaborated in Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), The Wings of Eagles (1957), and McLintock! (1963).

The ranch house used for the McCandles ranch is the same house used for the Chisum ranch in Chisum (1970),
a John Wayne western made a year earlier. Note the scenery around the ranch.

This was the first of only three John Wayne films (the others being Cahill (1973) and McQ (1974)
to receive AA certificates by the UK censor, meaning that they could only be seen by persons 14 and over.
All other Wayne movies were rated 'A' (PG) or under.

In 1971, owing to the success of this film, John Wayne was #1 at the US Box Office for the last time.

Director George Sherman was a friend of John Wayne dating back to their days in the 1930s making westerns at Republic Pictures
. By the time of this film, however, Sherman was aging and not in the best of health,
and had a difficult time shooting in the wilds of Mexico, where much of the movie was filmed.
On the days when Sherman was unable to shoot because of his health conditions,
Wayne took over direction, but when the film was completed he insisted that Sherman alone be credited as director.

Final film of veteran director George Sherman.

Goofs
* Continuity: Toward the beginning of the movie, the Texas Rangers and the Mc Candle's boys
are trying to get ahead of the kidnappers. When viewed from behind, the shadows are on the vehicle's right-hand side,
when the camera is in front, the shadows are on the left, even though the vehicles are traveling the same direction the entire time.

* Continuity: Big Jake is bucked off his horse and falls in a mud puddle. Later in the same scene his suit is clean.

* Continuity: James McCandles is thrown off his horse by Big Jake into a mud puddle. Later in the same scene he is clean.

* Continuity: During the kidnapping, Little Jake pokes at O'Brian with a pitchfork and knocks off O'Brian's hat,
but O'Brian has puncture wounds in his cheeks, much lower than the area where he was struck with the pitchfork.

* Continuity: Nine gang members ride to the ranch. One is killed. Seven ride away with "Little Jake".

* Continuity: When Michael is showing Jake his gas-powered gun both Sam and James jump into the river for safety.
Within minutes of leaving the river, the clothing worn by both of them is perfectly dry.

* Continuity: Throughout the movie, the Big Jake's dog changes its color many times.